Benjamin Beck, an authority on "tooling," offers a state-of-the art clarification of this fascinating behavior and why it's ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

A new experiment hints that an ape may be able to play pretend like humans do.

Today, Zoo Miami celebrated milestone birthdays for two iconic chimpanzees who have called the zoo home since the early ...

But, one of the coolest things we have in our area that doesn't get talked about nearly enough is Chimp Haven. Located out in ...

Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of ...

Scientists sat across from a 43-year-old bonobo called Kanzi to have an imaginary tea party. Here’s what happened. View on ...

Chimpanzees appear to be the biggest daredevils when they’re infants. Humans tend to take more chances and put themselves in ...

Amy Poehler and Jason Bateman got a fright while working with a chimp on a 2005 "Saturday Night Live" skit, and each reacted differently to the incident.